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Heather Cox Richardson’s scholarly take on Republican history is presented in ten brief excerpts. Though the collection is limited, each line delivers a clear, historically grounded observation. It serves as a concise entry point to her academic perspective.

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Movement Conservatism was a fringe force from the 1950s until the 1980s, when voters elected Movement Conservative Ronald Reagan to the White…

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Since 1980, Republican shredding of the social safety net has disproportionately hit women, particularly women of colour.

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Mt. Rushmore was conceived in 1923 in a desperate attempt to draw tourist dollars to a state that had been rushed into…

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Republican ideology says the government has no business supporting ordinary Americans: they should work to survive, even if that means they have…

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The history of the Republican Party is marked by vacillation between its founding principle of opportunity and its domination by the wealthy…

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Voter suppression in Florida in 2000 helped put Republican George W Bush into office despite losing the popular vote and the targeting…

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The Republican approach to handling the coronavirus and the economy is apparently not to turn to our government, but to put our…

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Prodded by the needs of the Union cause, the Republican Party created a strong national government that educated young men and gave…

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Abraham Lincoln and others recoiled from the idea of government as a prop for the rich. In organizing the Republican Party, they…

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Since 2000, Republican policies have suppressed Democratic voting; since 2010, Republican gerrymandering has given the Republicans a heavy systematic advantage in Congress;…

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Democracy was always a gamble. In 1776, the founders rejected the old idea that government should be based on hierarchies according to wealth or…

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Dog whistles about women who want handouts are simply an acceptable way to say that women are not worth as much as the men…

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The Treaty of Fort Laramie established most of what would later become South Dakota as a reservation, along with the Black Hills. But the…

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Under Ronald Reagan, hatred of the liberal media took on a storybook quality. Reagan had honed his political skills as a spokesman for General…

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Beginning in 1981, when government policies began to undermine the liberal consensus of the previous generation, wealth began to diverge. It is more unevenly…

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